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<li>I thought I was gonna get under a 3.0 this semester, but my teacher curved the grades in both my math classes and I ended up with 3.5 my last semester. </li>
<li>I could not get answers about my major, classes, and financial aid for ****. Calling was pretty much worthless.</li>
<li>I thought the housing options sucked and were overpriced. It seems like everyone got put into completely opposite of what they requested. </li>
<li>The financial aid was worse at Berkeley by a few grand a year (I think 4000?) and all the scholarships required super low income. </li>
<li>Their straight up Econ courses weren’t as relevant as what UCLA offered in their Econ department and Management classes. </li>
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<p>Reasons I liked Cal more than UCLA:
The prestige. They are really similar but I know the Berkeley name carries a little bit more (in Finance at least).
So easy to double major, way less requirements. I could’ve had a Stats/Econ or Math/Econ double major done in 2 years.
I was really interested in the Econ 101 series as it was heavily math based. (Although I didn’t know if I was going to get into this class).
I wanted to take the CS61 series.
It would’ve been cool to live in Berkeley. </p>
<p>We will see how orientation goes. I’m going to be pretty frustrated if I end up having to take some irrelevant crap to fill up my schedule. </p>
<p>Yeah, well, the Internet, that thing we’re communicating in, was pretty much born at UCLA.</p>
<p>That trumps everything Cal has ever done. [-( </p>
<p>In all seriousness, though, UCLA has a long list of accomplishments in its name, too. As they rack up, I think the prestige gap and academic gap will narrow considerably.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve developed quite a bit of school spirit. I’m a typical Bruin now. I’m sure I’ll love going to the school. Same for you with Berkeley. How are Berkeley’s political science classes? Have you looked them over?</p>
<p>Political Science is impacted as ■■■■ at Cal, lol. I’ve already registered for my two upper-div classes for the semester, so I’m glad that’s done for now. I like the course offerings a lot at Cal! There’s so many great classes. I thought the department at UCLA was good also but I wasn’t satisfied with the courses they offered. </p>
<p>Have you registered yet for classes, or looked at which philosophy classes you’d like to take for the fall?</p>
<p>I haven’t registered yet. New UCLA students usually wait until orientation to do that; class spots are supposedly reserved for incoming students at each orientation date. Mine is August 15th. Ugh.</p>
<p>I have a good idea of which classes to take, One of my philosophy classes is one that all philosophy majors have to take and is only offered in the Fall quarter, so there’s really no choice there. I’ll also take another philosophy class for major’s requirements. </p>
<p>And because philosophy is pretty hard, UCLA recommends taking one non-philosophy class in addition to the two philosophy classes most incoming transfers enroll in. I’ll probably enroll in a political science course, history course, or psychology course.</p>
<p>I just hope those class spots UCLA says are reserved actually are reserved. I’d hate to have a crappy start at UCLA. :(</p>
<p>@Cayton
Ah alright. I’m pretty sure those reserved seats are legit. That’s how it was for us too, except they had reserved seats in specific classes only so we couldn’t freely choose other ones unless we wanted to be on a long waitlist. </p>
<p>Oh, enrolling in a possible polisci course? Do you have an interest for polisci? They might possibly bring back the minor (or not). </p>
<p>I have a very strong interest in politics and considered majoring in political science back in high school. Changed my mind some time later, but I still like studying politics quite a bit. I’ve taken 3 political science courses at my school and I loved them all.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if UCLA will bring back the minor in political science, and although I’ve loved the poli sci classes I’ve taken so far, I just don’t see myself taking many more classes in the subject. Maybe one, at most two more classes in it.</p>
<p>When you guys talk about “prestige”, you focus way too much on rankings, and things that really don’t contribute that much to prestige of the university. </p>
<p>You/we know all the minute details if this school vs that school, and why this school is better for this or why another school is better for that. But do you really think that outside of the world of academia that most people really care?</p>
<p>When you go to get a job, most employers are not going to care if you UG degree says UCLA or CSU LA. Also you have to account for the fact that you boss could be a UC Merced alum or a CSU Bakersfield grad, so they are likely to be less impressed because they are probably proud of their own degree. Unless you go to a school like Yale, Harvard, or Stanford, most average people don’t distinguish. </p>
<p>If in the rankings Harvard fell to #40, the average person would still be impressed that you went to Harvard. Prestige and reputation are helped/ hurt very little by rankings because the legacy is long. </p>
<p>I think a lot of you guys are just really focusing too much on the prestige of your school, not realizing that most people don’t care that much. People should be going to schools based on the quality if the program that you’re actually going to be studying. Walking away with the best knowledge and high proficiency should be of higher value, than a brand name. </p>
<p>@RamonaFalls - I don’t have an answer to your question, but I just want to say that you should be very frugal with private loans. IMO you should really only get them if you absolutely cannot swing it, without them. </p>
<p>@Collegedropout1 you can survive without one but it will make life easier! I would recommend getting one if you can afford it. I have one, and cant see myself not having one, it is a time saver</p>
<p>@ramonafalls I THINK you select the option in your efan and than a bank will select you based on your credit score. Do you have a credit union? If you do why not try them? Credit unions have good interest rates </p>
<p>Like I said, the prestige is pretty equal, but in certain cases, Berkeley has an upper hand. For something like Finance, where employers are prestige w****s, Berkeley stands out for the bigger banks. Not to say you can’t break into it from UCLA. Or EECS and most Berkeley engineering. Other than that I would say there is no difference. </p>
<p>Ugh, UCLA still has not received my final transcripts which were supposedly sent out on June 9th by my CC. Looks like I will have to give them a call on Monday.</p>
<p>They probably did, and maybe MyUCLA didn’t update to reflect that. That’s what happened to me. I emailed them and asked about it and they said it’d update the next day.</p>
I’ll also take another philosophy class for major’s requirements. </p>
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